When Namish and Meera made ice cream rolls in Lucknow

Making the most of their visit, 'Swaragini' fame Namish Taneja and 'Udaan' fame Meera Deosthale already knew what they had to do in the free time that they had before their press conference in Lucknow. The two decided to go to a well-known ice cream parlour in Gomti Nagar and try their hands at making ice cream rolls.
Excited Namish and Meera first learned and keenly observed the process of making the rolls and then both made some roles for themselves."It isn’t that difficult too, I thought yeh bahut mushkil hone waala hai. Waise toh I have eaten ice cream rolls in Mumbai, but never have I ever got a chance to make them. So this time I thought ki let me try making these yummy rolls," shared Meera. While Meera made most of the ice cream rolls, Namish was seen lending a helping hand to her. "I am not that good in all this. So I was standing with Meera and helping her in making the rolls. Main part of the ice cream making was taken care of by her," added Namish.
Meera, recalling her childhood days, shared, "Ice cream was a big part of my childhood. I used to get cough every time I had an ice cream, so my mom stopped buying me ice cream but that didn’t stop me from eating it. I then used to secretly get money from home and eat ice creams on a daily basis. I used to have orange bars and that thing too that came in plastic wrappers which you had to sip. Plus, I just loved softies, those ice cream lollipops were also one among my favourites."
Meera Deosthale and Namish Taneja having ice cream rolls in the city (BCCL/ Farhan Ahmad Siddiqui)
While Namish said, he had an ice cream factory in his neighbourhood and he had befriended all the workers in the factory just to get free ice creams. "We tried our hands at making the ice cream and god it was tough and we loved the process, more than the process we loved eating it afterwards. It all got nostalgic as mere ghar ke paas factory bhi thi jahan pe woh 2 rupees wali orange bars banti thi, so I have spent my childhood having those orange bars," said Namish.
The two actors were in Lucknow to promote their show 'Vidya'. Talking to us about her last show Udaan, Meera shared how she wasn’t ready to play a mother to a grown-up in the serial and hence quit the show. "Doing a role of a mother of 20-year old needs some extra maturity. I mean I’m just 23 years old and I think I played exceptionally well when I had an eight months old kid and an eight-year-old kid in the show. But I had to play a mother to a 20-year old girl standing in front of me who actually was older than me was a bit unreasonable. I am not in that state of the mind where I have to play a mother to a grown-up," said Meera.
Namish, who plays a District Magistrate in this serial, says he has gone for a complete makoever to get into the character. "In my last show, 'Main Mayke Chali Jaungi, Tum Dekte Rahiyo', I had a long beard and long hair. So I decided to be more like a gentleman and I went for a haircut jiske wajah se bahut issue hua tha channel ke saath mera. They said ke yeh kya kar liya, hamein toh wahi chahiye tha. So I told them that if I choose any character, I make sure I do most of the things myself because it is said that dil ki suno toh zyada achha hota hai. They just said ke pahle poochhna chahiye tha hamse. But I got saved after maine baal waal sahi kar ke unko dikhaya aur kaha ke dekho lag raha hoon magistrate and they eventually agreed," shared Namish.
— Akash.Wadhwa@timesgroup.com and Saad Abbasi